Jean-Baptiste del Amo

About The Author

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo was born in 1981. He is the author of Pornographia, Le sel, and Une éducation libertine, which won the Goncourt First Novel Prize. Animalia, his fourth novel, won the Prix du Livre Inter 2017 and the 2020 Republic of Consciousness Prize, and was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, Prix Femina, Prix Médicis and Prix Wepler. The Son of Man won the Prix du Roman Fnac. The Ravaged Night won the Prix du livre de l'année du Magazine Lire.

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Books by Jean-Baptiste del Amo

The Ravaged Night

A Novel

By Jean-Baptiste del Amo

Translated by Frank Wynne

A band of teenage misfits. A town rotting from the inside out. An abandoned house that feeds on their deepest fears and darkest desires. This haunted house tale—in the tradition of Stephen King's coming-of-age horrors—comes from one of France's most celebrated literary stars

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